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- Title
FROM "JEWIFICATION" TO "ISLAMIZATION": ANTI-SEMITISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA IN AUSTRIAN POLITICS THEN AND NOW.
- Authors
Hafez, Farid
- Abstract
The content of right-wing populism is currently built largely upon Islamophobic mobilization, whereas, before the Second Republic of Austria, anti-Semitism was the principal content of populism in Austria. This article engages in a comparative discussion of the anti-Semitic propaganda deployed by political parties before the rise of the Austrofascist state and National Socialist rule in Austria and Islamophobic propaganda in present-day Austria. Specifically, the article compares the anti-Semitic discourse of "Jewification" that circulated between 1876 and 1934 with the current Islamophobic discourse of "Islamization," which is used by political parties such as the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the Christian democratic Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), which together currently form the coalition government in the Republic of Austria. This article comparatively investigates anti-Semitic and Islamophobic topoi to consider what continuities and shifts have occurred within the imagining of the (Oriental) Jewish and Muslim "other."
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; ISLAMOPHOBIA; ISLAMIZATION; RIGHT-wing populism; POLITICAL parties; PRACTICAL politics; FREIHEITLICHE Partei Oesterreichs; ANTISEMITISM
- Publication
ReOrient, 2019, Vol 4, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
2055-5601
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13169/reorient.4.2.0197